Calacanis Takes Position at Sequoia Capital — Today at 7 am PST at the SES conference in Chicago, Weblogs Inc. founder Jason Calacanis will announce that he has joined Sequoia Capital as an EIA (Entrepreneur in Action). This comes just two and a half weeks after Jason announced his departure from AOL.

JASON CALACANIS: Anointed by Sequoia — Jason Calacanis is to shack up with Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley's leading venture capital partnership, Techcrunch has the jump on the story. Michael Arrington says Calacanis will be an entrepreneur-in-residence, though the former Weblogs Inc founder …

Calacanis joins VC firm — Jason Calacanis, the former General Manager of AOL's Netscape (TWX) division, announced he's joining Sequoia Capital, a west coast venture investment firm. Calacanis's Weblogs Inc. was purchased by AOL about a year ago. In an appearance at a trade show Tuesday morning …

Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians — Tony Walsh has, as others do, some doubts about whether Second Life is sustainable as a business. But he also poses another question that I hadn't come across before: "Is Second Life sustainable ecologically?"

The Vanishing Click-Fraud Case — Why was a seemingly slam-dunk case against an alleged click-fraudster who attempted to extort Google quietly dismissed? — A detective novelist might call it The Mystery of the Vanishing Click-Fraud Case. — It began on Mar. 10, 2004 …

TiVoToGo On Your Mac — Want TiVoToGo on your Mac? — Nearly two years after being released, TiVo, Inc may have failed to deliver but the hacker community has heeded our call. As of 12/05/06 the solution requires a little elbow grease and some command line action, but the difficulty level …

Microsoft looking to run Windows on OLPC — Educational laptop could get Windows as well as Linux — Microsoft wants to make its Windows operating system available on the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) notebook computers, OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at the NetEvents conference in Hong Kong on Saturday.

Swivel Aims To Become The Internet Archive For Data — Swivel Co-founders Dmitry Dimov and Brian Mulloy start off by describing their company as "YouTube for Data." That's a good start for someone trying to understand it, because the site allows users to upload data - any data - and display it to other users visually.

China Largely Silent on Telecom Strategy — If the world's telecommunications executives thought that bringing their industry's biggest trade show to China would spur Chinese officials into opening their vast market, they were wrong — at least so far. — Government officials have avoided using …